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‘Trump Trashers’ abound

Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat

President Donald Trump has taken the “Dreamers” immigration issue and dropped it in the lap of Congress. The “Trump Trashers” in the media are bashing the president full steam ahead for being “uncaring” or racist. The irrationality of the Democrats reminds me of the brouhaha over the shoes First Lady Melania Trump wore boarding Air Force One on the way to Texas, ignoring the shoes she wore when leaving the plane in Texas.

Worse, it is the deliberate effort of Sen. Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, to trash the effort to straighten out immigration law. Schumer is in full throat to demagogue the issue. Schumer has stated on the floor of the Senate that he is going to do everything he can to obstruct the Trump agenda. He will obstruct the creation of a DACA law by preventing one from being passed by the Senate.

That would raise the question: At what point does Schumer’s obstructionism rise to the level of treason?

Ted Smith

Park Hills

This story was originally published September 12, 2017 at 5:46 PM with the headline "‘Trump Trashers’ abound."

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